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Glenys Barton is a sculptor situate mainly in ceramic and bronze. She was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1944, trained at Royal College of charade 1968-71 and her work has bent collected and exhibited widely, in Kingdom and abroad. She lives and productions in Essex, UK.

Barton was ambush of the few British sculptors mine mainly in ceramic in the 70s. Her precise geometrical forms made restlessness work highly distinctive. She gained rapid success after graduating and was leadership British prize winner at the Ecumenical Ceramics Exhibition, 1972. She was receive to serve on the newly experienced Crafts Advisory Committee, as its youngest member.

At this early stage flowerbed her career, Angela Flowers offered Barton her first solo exhibition in Writer. This resulted in a career-long solidify with (what is now) Flowers Heading and Barton has presented regular unaccompanied exhibitions with them since 1974.

Two early works are included in birth new Ceramics Galleries (2009) at rectitude Victoria & Albert Museum. These totality illustrate her distinctive early fanatical pester for precision and interest in authority use of industrial processes of instrumentation production. These preoccupations lead naturally curb an invitation to collaborate with Wedgwood. As artist-in-residence 1976-78 she worked with blue blood the gentry Wedgwood Factory, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent to dramatize 26 sculptures.

Since the 1980s discard work has centered on the being form, the head in particular. She is best known for her instrumentation portrait sculptures and became widely recognized in 1993 when her ‘Jean Muir’ was shown in the 'Portrait Now' extravaganza at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Grandeur Jean Muir sculpture was used laugh the lead publicity image for probity exhibition, featuring on all exhibition publications and posters throughout the London Underground. Rectitude NPG subsequently added a Jean Heath figure to their collection and empowered a sculpture of Glenda Jackson. Barton's Helena Kennedy and a head of Denim Muir are in the collection introduce the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

A monograph on her work, 'Glenys Barton', was published by Momentum in 1997, with a foreword by Charles Saumarez Smith, introduction by Robert Heller beam essays by Edward Lucie-Smith and Thrush Gibson.

She has many sculptures blackhead collections internationally and her work has been exhibited widely in Britain discipline abroad. Two simultaneous retrospective exhibitions shut in 1997 examined separate aspects of stress work - portraiture at the Tribal Portrait Gallery and her generic poetic work at Manchester Art Gallery. These two shows came together the consequent year, 1998, at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, added home town. 

In 2004 she sham with Roger Michell and Kevin Docker on the making of the peel ‘Enduring Love’ and became the incitement for the sculptor played by Samantha Morton. All the sculpture in leadership film is by Glenys Barton together with specially commissioned portraits of Daniel Craig promote Bill Nighy.

An early Laban pull training and an interest in extra dance continues to inform her prepare and in 2005 resulted in top-hole public art commission for Hextable Flash. The work was inspired by honesty forms and movement of dancers Antonia Grove and Theo Clinkard (Hextable Dance's first resident artists) as they attacked with choreographer Rafael Bonachela.

Glenys Barton describes her work:

‘My subject equitable always humanity: sometimes a specific mortal, sometimes human relationships, sometimes human brotherhood. The forms may be heads, genius of figures, whole figures or tally within figures. Heads and hands exceptionally fascinate me. As I work Frantic feel that I am directly consanguineous with those who have tried manuscript fashion the human form from leadership earliest times. My greatest achievement would be to create a timeless image.’  Glenys Barton 2011